HALEVY, ELIE (187o-1937), French historian, son of Ludovic Halevy (q.v.), was born at Etretat on Sept. 6,.1870. He became in 1898 professor at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Poli tiques, Paris. He was the author of a brilliant study of English history in the 19th century, dealing more especially with the social and economic side and based on an exhaustive study of the original sources. This Histoire du peuple anglais au XIXe siecle (3 vols., 1913-23) was translated into English (3 vols., 1924-27)• The first volume of an Epilogue (1895-1914) to this work , appeared in 1926, and the second volume in 1932.
Halevy's other works include: La Theorie platonicienne des sciences (1896) and La Formation du radicalisme philosophique (3 vols., 5900 03).